In this chapter, the protagonist is introduced to a group of students who are taking a field trip to a comic book shop. The students are all manga majors, which means that they're going to be reading a lot of the comic books in the store. The protagonist is excited to be there, since he's going to get to read the manga during class. He's also excited because he thinks that he'll be able to buy some stuff from the comic shop, since it's a cheap place to buy comic books. First off, he wants to know why they don't give him and his friend a private room to read alone. The comic shop doesn't even have a couple of seats for people to sit in, so the protagonist has to sit with two other people. He thinks that this is weird, but he also thinks that the other people are probably going to kill him if they see him reading alone. He wants to continue reading, so he starts with a comic about a guy who's reading a comic that's missing a little bit of a character. The guy's name is Specs, and he reads the comic out loud. The narrator is psyched to be in a comic shop with other people, because it means that he can read the comic aloud. He also wants to start reading his own manga, which is about a woman who runs off to the pharmacy to get medicine for her ulcer.